Program Structure
Chcc's Exceptional Approach
Our innovative educational approach strengthens and develops what makes your child exceptional. This focus on the whole child means they build academic skills (reading, math, etc.) and life skills—such as communicating and making friends—to be ready for elementary school.
AWARE: We observe and assess each child to learn their interests and needs.
CARE: We use our observations and assessments to plan a curriculum customized to each child.
SHARE: We communicate each child’s learning and classroom experiences with families.
CURRICULUM
Our programs are tailored to meet the needs of the children and communities we serve. The Creative curriculum and Common Core Standards along with music, movement, drama, and nature programs are the foundation of our curriculum. Our programs are challenging, cognitively engaging and provide exciting learning opportunities throughout the day.
OUR 3K AND PRE-K LEARNING CENTERS
Art:
The Art Area is a place filled with materials that children can enjoy and create their ideas in visual forms. On the table or easel, children can draw, paint, knead, cut, glue, and put together unique art projects of their own. They can create designs and express what they know and feel via varying artistic media.
Dramatic Play:
Drama is storytelling through action, dialogue, or both. We provide children with clothing they can use to dress up and pretend, blocks that can serve as props that can transform a city, and puppets that can act out a story. They take on character roles and recreate real-life experiences. As they indulge in the theater arts, they express their feelings, solve problems, think abstractly, and learn to cooperate with others.
Library Area:
The Library Area is a very important part of the classroom. It is where children gain the foundation for reading and writing. The library is also a place where children can relax and enjoy the wonderful world of children’s books. We encourage children to look at books, listen to stories on tape, retell stories, and to scribble and “write” throughout the day. Our staff reads stories to the children every day, and by reading, the children are introduced to new ideas while helping them handle problems and encourage their love for books.
Discovery Area:
The Discovery Area is stocked with interesting materials that are inviting to children’s love of exploration and investigation. It includes basic tools, objects, and materials from the natural world. Some of these tools are magnifying glasses, balance scales, and magnets that further augment children’s discovery skills. The Discovery Area is located near the window where children can observe nature and have natural light for growing plants and exploring shadows and reflections. The area helps build vocabulary and language skills, number concepts, patterns and relationships, measurements, data collection, process skills, life sciences, physical sciences, and knowledge of the Earth and our environment.
cozy corner
Creating a cozy corner in your classroom can help your kids learn how to manage their big emotions. A cozy corner learning center provides a safe place for young children to go where they can calm down when they're feeling mad, sad, nervous, or experiencing any big emotion.
SAND AND WATER
Playing with sand and water involves sensory experiences that appeal to young children. It challenges the children’s minds and promotes all areas of development. When children play with sand and water, they often express their thoughts and feelings through their imagination. Children strengthen their small muscles as they mold wet sand and scoop water. They develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination by working with props and by pouring water into a funnel or sifting sand through a sieve. Their gross motor skills are built up simply by carrying buckets of sand or water outdoors. Through careful observations, comparison, and measurements, children learn the properties of water – it can be splashed, poured, and frozen. The dry, solid sand can be sifted, raked, and shoveled. The children learn about volume and capacity. They explore the causes and effects of sand and water, and they can let their imaginations run wild.
BLOCKS
Wooden blocks naturally appeal to young children because they feel good to the touch, are symmetrical, and invite open-ended explorations. When children construct, create, and represent their experiences with blocks, they grow in each area of development. In the Block Area, children negotiate for materials they want to use, determine how many of them can work in area, care for the materials, and follow the rules for building safely. They also exchange ideas while developing their small muscles by carrying and carefully placing blocks together. They gain strength in their large muscles using hollow blocks, and their hand-eye coordination is improved when they carefully balance blocks to prevent them from tumbling. As children experience the world around them, they form mental pictures of what they see, and playing with blocks gives them the opportunity to recreate these pictures in concrete form. Children also learn about sizes, shapes, numbers, orders, areas, lengths, patterns, and weights as they select, build and put away blocks.
CHCC, INC. provide the children at our day care with diverse materials appropriate for their age to help them grow in all areas of development. Parental participation is an important component of our program, and we foster parent involvement through various parent-child workshops and other parent-child activities through out the year. The families receive a very busy and truly enriching program!
Daily meal schedule
Our school thrive on ensuring your child receives healthy meals daily. During the preschool years, your child should be eating the same foods as the rest of the family, with an emphasis on those with nutritional value. This includes fresh vegetables and fruits, nonfat or low-fat dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheeses), lean meats (chicken, turkey, fish, lean hamburger), and whole grain cereals and bread. At the same time, limit or eliminate the junk food in your child's diet, and get rid of sugared beverages as well.
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